• White Plains, New York
• February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996
Jonathan Larson was a well known playwright. He’s mostly known for his plays “Rent” and “tick, tick…BOOM!” I know great plays right! Well, how do you think that he got the inspiration and spunk needed to make such awesome shows?
Throughout Jonathan’s whole life he was exposed to the fine arts such as: instrument playing, being in choir, performing in musical at his high school. After graduating, he went to Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, where he performed in numerous plays and musicals. Afterward he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
And then! In 1989, Billy Aronson and Jonathan collaborated together, with their ideas! Then after some time of thinking, in 1993 Rent became a stage reading at New York Theatre Workshop.
Even though the show was off of its feet and getting going, Rent wasn’t seen publically until after Larson died. He died from an aortic dissection, which is when a tear in the wall of the aorta that causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. He had been experiencing chest pains and nausea for days prior to, but the doctors misdiagnosed it as flu.
Then Rent blew up! It was high on the good musical scale. Larson was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score; the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
Larson was pretty awesome! I’m astounded how he pulled all that off. Did you know that he was extremely poor until he died? He went from a broke everyday whatever person who was trying to get somewhere to one of the best playwrights ever! Good Job Jonathan Larson!!
• February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996
Jonathan Larson was a well known playwright. He’s mostly known for his plays “Rent” and “tick, tick…BOOM!” I know great plays right! Well, how do you think that he got the inspiration and spunk needed to make such awesome shows?
Throughout Jonathan’s whole life he was exposed to the fine arts such as: instrument playing, being in choir, performing in musical at his high school. After graduating, he went to Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, where he performed in numerous plays and musicals. Afterward he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
And then! In 1989, Billy Aronson and Jonathan collaborated together, with their ideas! Then after some time of thinking, in 1993 Rent became a stage reading at New York Theatre Workshop.
Even though the show was off of its feet and getting going, Rent wasn’t seen publically until after Larson died. He died from an aortic dissection, which is when a tear in the wall of the aorta that causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. He had been experiencing chest pains and nausea for days prior to, but the doctors misdiagnosed it as flu.
Then Rent blew up! It was high on the good musical scale. Larson was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score; the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
Larson was pretty awesome! I’m astounded how he pulled all that off. Did you know that he was extremely poor until he died? He went from a broke everyday whatever person who was trying to get somewhere to one of the best playwrights ever! Good Job Jonathan Larson!!
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